Trek Madone 3.5

p9uma

Me New Steed. I think its really rather jolly good.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1044232726 ... directlink

I hope the link works, my track record with this linky stuff has not been very good thus far.

ALaPlage

Yup. It works.

Nice bike but I am biased cos I love Treks. Like the black and red colour scheme.

p9uma

ALaPlage wrote:

Yup. It works.

Nice bike but I am biased cos I love Treks. Like the black and red colour scheme.

Thanks, 'tis a nice bike right enough, though I'm a bit of a Cannondale fan, I rode two Cannondales and four Treks and a Giant, within certain price bracket. All the treks were fantastic, as where the Cannondales, but the Treks just seemed that little bit more comfortable, I wasnt feeling the love on Giant. I went with the 3.5 in the end because it just seemed the best value for money. They are bloody difficult to get hold of, I phoned a load of places no one had one, in the end got it from my LBS!

ALaPlage

Funny that as I also couldnt get along on the Giant and of all the bikes that I have ridden the Trek remains the most comfortable riding position. I am in a fortunate position of having £4k to spend on a new bike and as I trial a number of different bikes the Trek still stands out. I fancied something with a little more heritage such as the Colnago clx or Pinarello Rokh or FP Quattro but none of these fit as nicely as my old Trek or the new 5.9 I tried last week.

Going to have a try of the Cube Litening with Dura Ace at Tweeks open day on Saturday all being well but currently the 5.9 is still edging it.

alihisgreat

embed it! (don't know about others but i like to see the picture on here rather than clicking another link.)



nice bike though.

P.s. if you don't know how -> click on the image in google+ to get the 'full' version, then right click and 'copy image url'

then put it into image tags as below:

[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zZG5-TVs2Sk/T5LqP2JaobI/AAAAAAAAEcQ/IE6PU22pzbI/s839/Madone3.5+1.jpg[/img]

the_fuggler

Looks very nice. Been trying to find one to test ride locally, but no joy. Will keep hunting after seeing yours!

MarksMintness

Lovely bike, really wanted the 3.1 as a first serious road bike! I love Trek's myself, just got a 1.1 with similar colour scheme.
Lovely bike, enjoy it!

p9uma

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

embed it! (don't know about others but i like to see the picture on here rather than clicking another link.)



nice bike though.

P.s. if you don't know how -> click on the image in google+ to get the 'full' version, then right click and 'copy image url'

then put it into image tags as below:

[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zZG5-TVs2Sk/T5LqP2JaobI/AAAAAAAAEcQ/IE6PU22pzbI/s839/Madone3.5+1.jpg[/img]

I prefer to see it here too, but I couldn't work out how to do, so thanks for the help.

p9uma

ALaPlage wrote:

Funny that as I also couldnt get along on the Giant and of all the bikes that I have ridden the Trek remains the most comfortable riding position. I am in a fortunate position of having £4k to spend on a new bike and as I trial a number of different bikes the Trek still stands out. I fancied something with a little more heritage such as the Colnago clx or Pinarello Rokh or FP Quattro but none of these fit as nicely as my old Trek or the new 5.9 I tried last week.

Going to have a try of the Cube Litening with Dura Ace at Tweeks open day on Saturday all being well but currently the 5.9 is still edging it.

It's good fun test riding bikes, enjoy the process.

p9uma

The Fuggler wrote:

Looks very nice. Been trying to find one to test ride locally, but no joy. Will keep hunting after seeing yours!

Good luck, I hope you can find one in the right size, the seemd to have been all snapped up since the good reviews in cycling plus. There must be one somewhere.

p9uma

MarksMintness wrote:

Lovely bike, really wanted the 3.1 as a first serious road bike! I love Trek's myself, just got a 1.1 with similar colour scheme.
Lovely bike, enjoy it!

Thanks Mark, I did my first 40 miler on it today, it felt like it was flying.